How to get start and end date of a year?

Question

I have to use the Java Date class for this problem (it interfaces with something out of my control).

How do I get the start and end date of a year and then

Answer 1

I assume that you have Date class instance and you need to find first date and last date of the current year in terms of Date class instance. You can use the Calendar class for this. Construct Calendar instance using provided date class instance. Set the MONTH and DAY_OF_MONTH field to 0 and 1 respectively, then use getTime() method which will return Date class instance representing first day of year. You can use same technique to find end of year.

    Date date = new Date();
    System.out.println("date: "+date);
    Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();
    cal.setTime(date);

    System.out.println("cal:"+cal.getTime());

    cal.set(Calendar.MONTH, 0);
    cal.set(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH, 1);

    System.out.println("cal new: "+cal.getTime());